The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-21
CONDENSED NEWS.
Wednesday, Dec. II.

wednesday, Dec. H.
Dempsey whipped Reagan in forty five
rounds.
NJ. Hertenstein has been elected president
al Switzerland
Nine. Boucicault's requests to Partisan
charities aggregate So, 900, 600
The time from San Francisco to Chicago
has been shortened to 83 hours
M. Wilson has been acquitted of com
plicity in the decorations scandal.
Alfred Sully was reelected president of
the Richmond g. West Point Terminal
company.
Wong All Hung, rich Chinaman, was
convicted of importing slave girls into San
Francisco
Mr. Gladstone says the state of Ireland
has grown sadly worse under the present
government
Over 400 delegates are expected at the
Thursdays meeting of the Republican clubs
at New York.
William W. Nichols, widely known as a
circus proprietor and bareback rider, died
at his home in North Adams.
The London Times says that DR.. Hamil-
ton Williams of New York is to carry on
the work of O'Donovan Rosa
The Canadian Pacific railroad is en-
croaching upon the territory of the North
ern Pacific in the matter of freight trains.
A Boston Ramabai association was organ
lied for the purpose of raising the condition
of the widows and illiterate women in
India.
The seven emergency men charged with
manslaughter in killing John kinsela, near
Coolgreany, Ireland, on Sept. 2S, have been
acquitted.
Seare, Vannerman & Co, jobbers Of
notions, Philadelphia have assigned Their
liabilities are $685., 900, and several Boston
firms are heavy creditors.
One of the schemes to annoy Mr. Ran
dali and curtail his power is to change the
house rules so as to cripple the committee
on rules, Of which Randall is the chair nan.
Senator Chandler has introduced bill
providing for the appointment of supervi-
sors of congressional elections in southern
states, with the view of giving colorod men
a fair ballot
d. DeCostro & Co., shipping and COM
mission merchants of New York, who did
a large South and Central American bust
ness have suspended; liabilities from $780,
900 to 81 100000
The receivers of the New York, Boston IL
Montreal railway have been ordered by the
United States circuit court to sell the 2S40
shares OF the New York City q Northern
stock in their possession.
Mrs. Cleveland, through her husbands
secretary, has returned to the giver beau
tiful jeweled oasket from Venice Italy,
stating that she does not wish to accept
gifts except from personal friends.
Thursday, Dec. Is.
A serious rebellion is reported from
Nepaul India.
German laws against Socialists are to be
made more stringent.
A married woman of Plymouth, Mass,
eloped with a mulatto.
Gen. Longstreet has applied for a pen
sion from the state of Georgia.
Jack McAulfie is in Boston trying to get
on another fight with Jem Carney.
Michael Davitt denounces the dynamite
The annual meeting of the New England
Horse Breeders association was held in
Boston.
The Gloucester schooner Peregrine White
was lost in fog in Hermitage bay New.
foundland.
Z. l. Sawyer, secretary OF the Duluth
Roller Mill company, is reported to have
absconded.
Hands In the Plymouth, Mass, straw
works asked for weekly payments and were
discharged.
The national convention Of third and
fourth class postlnasters was opened in
Washington.
Joseph II. Zimmerman, the widely known
fire engine builder, died at his home in
Roxbury, Mass,
Employees of the Para Rubber Shoe com
pany at South birmingham, Mass, voted
return to work.
Peter Bennett of Newport Me-, ident-
fed the wrapper on the money found upon
the suspected thieves.
Two persons were killed and fourteen
others injured by the blowing down of
California hotel by wind.
Wooden manufacturers are to hold a
meeting to devise remedy for evils in ex-
isting modes of doing business.
Larry Donovan will jump from the sus-
pension bridge at Clifton, England, the
week of the Smith Kirain fight.
President Cleveland refuses to be assessed
in Buffalo. He says he never intends to
take up his residence in that city again.
DR.. Platt, Liberal member of the house
of commons for Prince Edward, Ontario,
has been unseated for bribery by agents
James G.. Blaine and Levi P. Morton
were received by President Carnot at Paris
They were presented by Minister McLane.
Four additional summonses have been
served on Timothy Harrington for publish
ing reports of the doings of suppressed
branches Of the Irish league.
The coroner's jury at Claremont, N. H.,
found that the death of Mrs. Crowthers was
caused by the bursting of blood vessel in
the excitement of an alteration.
Friday, Dec. 10.
The fire in the Calumet and Hecla mine
is believed to be out.
Tho French radicals and the extremists
oppose the new ministry.
Boston cremationists have given up their
project Of building chapel and furnace.